The Planetary Report

The Planetary Report is the internationally recognized flagship magazine of The Planetary Society, featuring lively articles and full-color photos to provide comprehensive coverage of discoveries on Earth and other planets.

This quarterly magazine reaches members of The Planetary Society all over the world, with news about planetary missions, spacefaring nations, intrepid explorers, planetary science controversies and the latest findings in humankind's exploration of the solar system.

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We Can All Go to Mars, by Bruce Murray and Louis D. Friedman; To Fly a Solar Sail: A Story of Friendship, by Charlene M. Anderson; A NEAR Perfect Landing, by Melanie Melton; Red Rover Goes to Mars: Student Scientists Make History, by Rachel Zimmerman; Mars Odyssey: A Good Day to Launch, by Glenn Cunningham

Farewell to a Cold Warrior: Mir Station Obituary, by Roald Sagdeev; A Bold New Voyage: The Planetary Society Prepares to Fly a Solar Sail, by Louis Friedman; The 2001 Shoemaker NEO Grant Awardees: A World of Observing Experience, by Daniel Durda; Odd Planet Out: What’s Up With Pluto Exploration? by Jennifer Vaughn

Opinion: Systems Engineering—A Personal Memoir, by James D. Burke; Odd Asteroids and Closet Comets: The Distinction Blurs, by Don Yeomans; The Express to Mars, by Robert Burnham; Hunting the Elusive "Wow", by Robert H. Gray

Opinion: No Threat? No Way! by John Rummel, Margaret Race, and Kenneth Nealson; Life From Space? Testing Panspermia With Martian Meteorite ALH84001, by Benjamin Weiss and Joseph Kirschvink; [email protected] and The Planetary Society—The Bond Strengthens, by Charlene Anderson; The Next Generation of Mars Explorers—Introducing the Red Rover Goes to Mars Team, by Rachel Zimmerman

Contamination From Mars: No Threat, by Robert Zubrin; What Might Have Been: The Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter Losses, by Andre Bormanis; Mars Global Surveyor: Performing Daily, 687 Days a Year, by Jennifer Vaughn; Human Exploration of Space: Fact and Fantasy, by Charlene Anderson

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